A $6 billion proposal by Las Vegas Sands to build a casino resort on the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum site comes with significant impacts to water usage, traffic flow, public health and the local economy, according to a voluminous report made public Thursday.
The 28,000-page draft environmental impact statement, or DEIS, details the measures Sands intends to implement for the project on the 72-acre Uniondale property, including expanding the Meadowbrook Parkway and building a new underground well that would draw nearly 2 million gallons of water per day. The public document is divided into several volumes and available for comment until Jan. 6, with county legislators holding an in-person public hearing Dec. 9 in Mineola.
